Why tuple with one item is no tuple

[deelan]

Gregor Horvath wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  >>>type(['1'])
> <type 'list'>
> 
>  >>>type(('1'))
> <type 'str'>
> 
> I wonder why ('1') is no tuple????
> 
> Because I have to treat this "special" case differently in my code.

you need to tell python that ('1') isn't a string inside
a couple parens but a tuple, look:

 >>> t = ('1', )
 >>> type(t)
<type 'tuple'>

if there's no ambiguity you can omit the parens:

 >>> t = '1',
 >>> type(t)
<type 'tuple'>

HTH,
deelan

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